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Hi-tech parks, processing zones and industrial zones, and start-ups in the city are running quite well. The city recently built an urban innovation area in its eastern part to create a driving force for the city amid the fourth industrial revolution, and its model linking banks and businesses via State management agencies in wards and districts is performing well.  … [Read more...] about VIETNAM’S BUSINESS NEWS HEADLINES JULY 12

People returning from China are quarantined at a military camp in Lang Son Province, northern Vietnam, February 2020. Photo by VNE A friend elsewhere in Asia has an elderly parent in the UK. Chatting online she told me she’d read about this “slow-motion grief” affecting people as a result of the COVID-19 situation. … [Read more...] about COVID-19 in Vietnam – the fear, the tears, the pride and the debt

The article also describes some of the effective measures implemented to halt the spread of the epidemic, such as closing borders, mandatory quarantine for those who came into contact with confirmed cases, along with unprecedented transparency and communication from the government. These policies came simultaneously alongside the closure of non-essential businesses and a ban on public gatherings, with no more than two people able to meet throughout the month of April, with Otis noting, “the spread of COVID-19 in Vietnam never really took off as it did in much of the rest of the world.”  … [Read more...] about Thoughts of an American living in HCM City during COVID-19

Unemployment rate in urban areas almost doubles that in countryside The unemployment rate among those aged 15 and above in Vietnam stood at 2.05 percent last year and the figure in urban areas is almost double that of rural areas, the 2019 population and housing census reveals. … [Read more...] about Businesses in distress, unemployment rate on the rise

In the third act, artists shaped a large-scale banh chung, a Vietnamese cake made of sticky rice, green bean and pork usually made during the lunar new year. The banh chung was wrapped in green leaves and tied in red bamboo string to be offered to the Hung Kings and to commemorate the effort of Lang Lieu, the youngest son of the 18th Hung King, who was the original creator of the traditional cake. … [Read more...] about Viet Nam celebrates its Hung founders